Geno's calls
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Hmm.
Peter Minuit (1580-1638) was a Dutch colonial trader who purchased the island of Manhattan from Native Americans in exchange for goods valued at $24 (in 1626).
A MINUIT (per Wikipedia) is "...a numerical minimization computer program originally written in the FORTRAN programming language[1] by CERN staffphysicist Fred James in the 1970s. The program searches for minima in a user-defined function with respect to one or more parameters using several different methods as specified by the user. The original FORTRAN code was later ported to C++ by the ROOT project; both the FORTRAN and C++ versions are in use today. The program is very widely used in particle physics, and hundreds of published papers cite use of MINUIT...MINUIT is not a program that can be distributed as an executable binary to be run by a relatively unskilled user: the user must write and compile a subroutine defining the function to be optimized, and oversee the optimization process.""
So...if we could reanimate the deceased Walloon from Wesel to negotiate a deal in which Skylar Diggins would become mayor of one of Connecticut's less desirable towns (say, Shelton) in exchange for, say, her headband, which is the source of all her powers...we could totally beat Notre Dame in the Final Four.
Or, we could offer Kayla McBride $100,000 of the blood money we got from the dissolution of the Big East Conference if she would agree to try to explain to us the ins and outs of searching for minima in a user-defined function while compiling a subroutine to...blah blah...while we're holding the cash out to her, we throw a sack over her head and lock her in the bowels of Gampel until April 10.
Either way, we are not lost.
Peter Minuit (1580-1638) was a Dutch colonial trader who purchased the island of Manhattan from Native Americans in exchange for goods valued at $24 (in 1626).
A MINUIT (per Wikipedia) is "...a numerical minimization computer program originally written in the FORTRAN programming language[1] by CERN staffphysicist Fred James in the 1970s. The program searches for minima in a user-defined function with respect to one or more parameters using several different methods as specified by the user. The original FORTRAN code was later ported to C++ by the ROOT project; both the FORTRAN and C++ versions are in use today. The program is very widely used in particle physics, and hundreds of published papers cite use of MINUIT...MINUIT is not a program that can be distributed as an executable binary to be run by a relatively unskilled user: the user must write and compile a subroutine defining the function to be optimized, and oversee the optimization process.""
So...if we could reanimate the deceased Walloon from Wesel to negotiate a deal in which Skylar Diggins would become mayor of one of Connecticut's less desirable towns (say, Shelton) in exchange for, say, her headband, which is the source of all her powers...we could totally beat Notre Dame in the Final Four.
Or, we could offer Kayla McBride $100,000 of the blood money we got from the dissolution of the Big East Conference if she would agree to try to explain to us the ins and outs of searching for minima in a user-defined function while compiling a subroutine to...blah blah...while we're holding the cash out to her, we throw a sack over her head and lock her in the bowels of Gampel until April 10.
Either way, we are not lost.
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